McKay's Baptism

McKay's baptism was on July 2.  It was a crazy weekend as we had family up and we were getting ready to go on our cruise.  Everything seemed to fall into place and we had a wonderful time during this special event.  Grandpa and Grandma Hall, Aunt Charisse, and Uncle Kelly were all there on the Hall side and Grandpa and Grandma Adams, and Jared and Michelle's family, and even Aunt Isabelle were there on the Adams side.  McKay was baptised by his dad.  It was very spiritual experience, at least for me.  They made me bear my testimony just before he was confirmed and I just bawled through it.  I was very proud of McKay when he was baptised.  The day or two before, I can't remember, McKay to me seemed a bit nervous.  He has never really put his head underwater and I think he was worried about that.  I told Kory when he got home from work and he took McKay up to the bathtub and they practiced putting his head underwater.  He did fine with it and I was really glad.  He also did fine as he was baptised.  However, even after that, he still does not like to put his head under the water.  We had a dinner after the baptism at our home with pulled pork sandwiches, salads, veg tray, chips, and cookies.  A wonderful event and we were so glad we had so many family willing to come up from so far away.

McKay's Birthday - 8 years old!!!!!

McKay turned 8 on June 26.  We kind of celebrated his birthday over 3 days worth because of how busy we were.  On the first day, Friday, we went to lunch at one of his favorite places, Olive Garden.  On the second day, Saturday, we spent the day up at Placerville welcoming our ward trekers home who had left that week to go on trek.  It was a long drive and hot, but we enjoyed being with our other ward members and felt that spirit as they came in, and also enjoyed a wonderful lunch.  We drove home and Kory had to help unload a lot of the treker's gear and deliver them.  Late that night we went bowling as a family.  That was the first time that our kids have gone bowling.  It was a lot of fun and the winners went in line with the family, Kory, Sharese, McKay, and Erica.  Kason just enjoyed watching us all bowl and he was able to do it once in a while.  The third day, Sunday, was his true birthday.  We did our normal stuff, went to church, came home and took naps, and to celebrate his birthday we opened presents, had one of his favorite dinners (tuna turnovers), and had cake.  We love McKay.  He at times is challenging but very spiritual, deep, and loving.  We are so glad that he is apart of our lives.

McKay LOVES flag cakes.  He requests them each year.  I made our famous jello cake with cream cheese frosting.  Yummmmm.

Time To Start Blogging Again

I have been terrible this summer.  I just did not have the desire or ambition to do any blogging.  So now school is starting in about 4 days and I need to get back to some routiness around here.  One thing I need to catch up on is my blogging.  I have heard a lot of people say that they take their blogs and then at the end of the year they make a book out of them and that is their journal.  I need to do something like that.  It sounds like fun and a great way to capture these memories, but I have to be more consistent in blogging.  So I am making some middle of the year resolutions and changing some things in my life.  I am hoping I can stay consistent with this.  My new blog day is going to be Fridays, and Iwill try to capture as much as I can on my camera during the week and post them on Fridays.  It is past midnight now, so I think I might delay this till tomorrow.  My next post will be a big one:  What we did during this summer.  So stay tuned until tomorrow.